Ladies Hall
1874 - 1927
Also Known As
- Boarding Hall (1874 - 1924)
- Boarding House (1874 - 1924)
Ladies Hall was built in 1872 and served as a boarding hall when the University opened in 1874. It was the first permanent building to be erected north of State Street and remained there until 1927.
Building History
Description
Ladies Hall was built in 1872 and contained a spacious dining room, a kitchen, laundry room, and other rooms expected to be associated with a boarding house. The hall also contained rooms for families, servants, members of the Faculty, and young ladies. However, only twenty ladies could be accommodated and all the women were supervised by a female member of the Purdue faculty. Ladies Hall also had a complete suite of rooms for the school of Industrial Art. This included a large lecture hall, four smaller rooms for shading and modeling in clay, an office, a library, and two basement rooms for special work.Tags
Construction Information
Dates
1872 - 1874Architect(s)
- Edwin May
Contractor(s)
- Joshua Chew
Materials
- Brick
Cost
$34,000.00
$903,685.31 in today's dollars